It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.

History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.

Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.

Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.